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... Communist Bengali government, as its artisans had lovingly crafted it hundreds of years ago (see photographs). Killer and I left Ganden with a better understanding of one another and the politics and problems of China and Tibet. I left realizing that a ...
... altitude. I began with the kora, the path/circuit the Tibetan pilgrims make around the monastery before entering...however, the Ganden kora is not just around the monastery, it's around the whole mountain peak that the monastery sits on! ...
Ganden monastery is one of the three main monasteries in the Lhasa area, Sera and Drepung being the other two. It is 40km north of Lhasa at an altitude of 4500 metres and suffered most during the destructive cultural revolution which left 6254 monsateries& ...
... They pile in and all three of us ride into Samye via dump truck. After the grandeur and recent restorations at Ganden, the dusty, somewhat run-down, hot, flat Samye disappointed. The central temple certainly impresses but I had a hard time ...
